{"id":177,"date":"2012-06-04T20:06:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T20:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/?p=177"},"modified":"2012-05-31T20:30:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:30:58","slug":"steve-jobs-patent-exhibit-at-smithsonian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/2012\/06\/04\/steve-jobs-patent-exhibit-at-smithsonian\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs Patent Exhibit at Smithsonian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/files\/2012\/05\/Steve-Jobs-Patents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-179 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/files\/2012\/05\/Steve-Jobs-Patents-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/files\/2012\/05\/Steve-Jobs-Patents-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/files\/2012\/05\/Steve-Jobs-Patents-396x300.jpg 396w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/files\/2012\/05\/Steve-Jobs-Patents.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Though the exhibit was at the USPTO offices for some time,\u00a0<em>The Patents and Trademarks of Steve Jobs: Art and Technology that Changed the World <\/em>has made it&#8217;s way to the hallowed halls of the Smithsonian and will be there for about a month longer, ending July 8th.<\/p>\n<p>If a wall of patents doesn&#8217;t seem like museum material, consider the impact those inventions had on culture around the world, and the fact that the objects of those patents earned Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dizzymarketing.com\/uncategorized\/national-report-apple-has-greater-stability-than-the-national-treasury.html\">assets that eclipse the national treasury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/files\/2012\/05\/apple_imac_fp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-178 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/files\/2012\/05\/apple_imac_fp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>And of course, Jobs was known for his artistry as well as his ingenuity. According to NPR, the now seemingly-antiquated design for the first flat-screened iMac, that seems to hover over it&#8217;s rounded base was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/05\/13\/152590769\/for-steve-jobs-patents-kept-beauty-of-design-alive\">inspired by sunflowers his wife grew in their Palo Alto garden.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And if you can&#8217;t get to D.C., here&#8217;s a fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2011\/08\/24\/technology\/steve-jobs-patents.html\">interactive look at Jobs&#8217; patents at the New York Times<\/a>, everything from Apple packaging to product prototypes that never made it to the showroom floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a wall of patents doesn&#8217;t seem like museum material, consider the impact those inventions had on culture around the world&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/2012\/06\/04\/steve-jobs-patent-exhibit-at-smithsonian\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29583],"tags":[172,49347,29584],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patents-and-pop-culture","tag-apple","tag-patent-news","tag-steve-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/patentlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}